COMM 150

Methodologies in Communication Research

Description: Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour. Requisite: Economics 41 or Statistics 10. Limited to Communication majors. Examination of quantitative and qualitative methodologies in communication research. Letter grading.

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Research methods is certainly not the most exciting class you can take, but it's mandatory, at least for comm majors. If you have to take it, I would recommend taking it with Professor Haselton. The reading material is dry, but she did her best to provide examples and analogies to help you learn. She shared her research on relationships and applied them to the course. Evolutionary psychology is an interesting field of study, and Haselton introduces some ideas in her methods class. Besides the studies on relationships, the class discussions were best. Haselton's TA, Elizabeth, is amazing! She was always willing to help you with your research proposal paper, which is a good assignment btw, and has a million ideas to give you if you can't come up with your own. Back to Haselton though, she is extremely organized, though I don't remember the last time a professor used overheads. They are helpful because she posts them online afterwards. She lectures well and clearly, but it almost seems like she's too nice. It shouldn't take a class as long as it did to settle down. Haselton should be more assertive in that regards. And the tests. I personally thought the questions, multiple choice and short answer/essay, were completely fair. Nothing was a surprise or worded funny, but straightforward. About the class, it was somewhat strange because there were so few guys, but I suppose that is the comm student body. Also, as others have noted, Haselton is probably one of the best looking professors on campus. Man, she never had a bad hair day...ever.
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Spring 2024 - Honestly I went into this class kinda scared because of the reviews, but I was very surprised by how much less difficult it was than I was expecting and this is coming from someone who hates math. For the format of her class, she posts two lectures at the beginning of the week on bruinlearn, which you are expected to watch before the in person lectures on tuesdays and thursdays. These online lectures are basically her going over the main topics with a few examples. Her in person lectures are her just answering any questions people had about the online lectures and giving some more examples. Honestly her online lectures were already pretty detailed in my opinion that I rarely ever even went to the in person lectures because I just didn't find them necessary and she doesn't take attendance either. Attendance is taken for discussion unfortunately. Also at the end of each online lecture, she makes you complete a 3-5 question quiz to make sure you actually watched the lecture and that you're staying on track. The quizzes were not difficult at all and were basically free points. As for the weekly homework assignments, although they sometimes took me a while I still thought they were very helpful for the exams and she never asked us anything extra that she didn't teach us. As for the exams, there is one midterm and one final. The concepts we learned the first half of the quarter were kinda easy so the midterm was pretty easy. The final was little harder but if you study and really go over the homeworks and lectures you'll be okay. The exams overall were pretty straight forward with no tricks. The final paper/project was also not bad at all either it was just a 2-page single spaced paper where she asked you to come up with a research question and how you would conduct your experiment. Overall not as difficult as people made it out to be, and I didn't consider any of the work we were assigned to be busy work. It was all very helpful for the exams.
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